Identifying Bias and Perspective when Teaching About the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This session examines the five essential practices for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement: educate for empowerment, know how to talk about race, capture the unseen, tell a complicated story and connect to the present. Education experts model how the "Circle of Viewpoints" teaching strategy can be used to identify different perspectives using a series of primary sources from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.